Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoKim Kardashian’s Skims lingerie range now includes thong with built-in pubic wigedition.cnn.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up158arrow-down118
arrow-up140arrow-down1external-linkKim Kardashian’s Skims lingerie range now includes thong with built-in pubic wigedition.cnn.comViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square15fedilink
minus-squarequalia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25arrow-down2·3 days agoThe media thinks she invented the merkin now?
minus-squareWrufieotnak@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down5·edit-23 days agoThank you for making me read the article about pubic wigs. . But now I can ask you: why do you think that? Nowhere in the article does it say or imply that she invented it. They said it’s a publicity stunt.
minus-squarepulsewidth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down2·3 days agoProbably because they invent a new term that they use in the headline, “pubic wigs”, even though KK is quoted in the article directly referring to it as a merkin. This isn’t an article so much as its an ad, and merkin isn’t a sexy term.
minus-squareWrufieotnak@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down2·edit-23 days agoMaybe because they thought their readers wouldn’t know what a merkin is but can probably imagine what a pubic wig is? And it is not an invented term when it is literally the description of what something is. ~50 % of USAmericans read at middle school level and you think CNN doesn’t use the word merkin because they want to hype a Kardashian?
minus-squarepulsewidth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·3 days agoWhy the hell would they need to imagine what it is when the article has pictures?
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days ago“Pubic wig” is definitely not a new term.
The media thinks she invented the merkin now?
Thank you for making me read the article about pubic wigs. .
But now I can ask you: why do you think that? Nowhere in the article does it say or imply that she invented it. They said it’s a publicity stunt.
Probably because they invent a new term that they use in the headline, “pubic wigs”, even though KK is quoted in the article directly referring to it as a merkin.
This isn’t an article so much as its an ad, and merkin isn’t a sexy term.
Maybe because they thought their readers wouldn’t know what a merkin is but can probably imagine what a pubic wig is?
And it is not an invented term when it is literally the description of what something is.
~50 % of USAmericans read at middle school level and you think CNN doesn’t use the word merkin because they want to hype a Kardashian?
Why the hell would they need to imagine what it is when the article has pictures?
“Pubic wig” is definitely not a new term.